Etymology of Words and Phrases, Part 5: ‘Tis the Christmas Season

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CHRISTMAS CARDS -The tradition of sending Christmas cards originated in the mid-1800s when a few people began to design handmade cards to send to family and friends. A man named John Calcott Horsley is credited as being the first to actually print Christmas cards. The card depicted a family enjoying the holiday, with scenes of people performing acts of charity. The card was inscribed: “Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year to You.” Some of the other cards of the era were rather bizarre!!!

CHRISTMAS GIFT! –

A greeting used on Christmas morning, with the first person saying it traditionally receiving a gift. The custom, which has been traced back to as early as 1844, is no longer observed but ‘Christmas gift!’, which used to be a far more popular Christmas greeting than ‘Merry Christmas!’, is still heard among older people.”

CHRISTMAS PICKLE – Pickle ornaments were considered a special decoration by many families in Germany where the fir tree was decorated on Christmas Eve. It was always the last ornament to be hung on the Christmas tree, with the parents hiding it in the green boughs among the other ornaments. When the children were allowed to view the tree they would begin gleefully searching for the pickle ornament. The children knew that whoever first found that special ornament would receive an extra little gift left by St. Nicholas for the most observant child.

EPIPHANY – January 6 is known in western Christian tradition as Epiphany. It goes by other names in various church traditions. In Hispanic and Latin culture, as well as some places in Europe, it is known as Three Kings’ Day. Because of differences in church calendars, mainly between the Eastern Orthodox and the western Catholic and Protestant traditions, both Christmas and Epiphany have been observed at different times in the past.

Epiphany is the climax of the Christmas Season and the Twelve Days of Christmas, which are counted from December 25th until January 5th. The day before Epiphany is the twelfth day of Christmas, and is sometimes called Twelfth Night, an occasion for feasting in some cultures. The term epiphany means to show” or “to make known” or even “to reveal.” In Western churches, it remembers the coming of the wise men bringing gifts to visit the Christ child, who by so doing “reveal” Jesus to the world as Lord and King.

GOD SPEED THE PLOUGH; PLOUGH MONDAY – God speed the plough, ‘a wish for success or prosperity,’ was originally a phrase in a 15th-century song sung by ploughmen on Plough Monday; the first Monday after the Twelfth Day, which is the end of the Christmas holidays, when farm laborers returned to the plough, soliciting ‘plough money’ to spend in celebration.

HARD CANDY CHRISTMAS – A bleak Christmas — one where the family is so low on money that everyone gets hard candy for Christmas instead of gifts. The phrase is the title of a song written by Carol Hall and sung by Dolly Parton: “Lord it’s like a hard candy Christmas.I’m barely getting through tomorrow.But still I won’t let Sorrow bring me way down.I’ll be fine and dandy.

MERRY CHRISTMAS – England of the Anglo-Saxon period and the Middle Ages was not a very happy place to be, let alone ‘merrie.’ So why the phrase “Merrie Christmas” indicating revelry and joyous spirits, as if England were one perpetual Christmastime? The answer is that the word ‘merrie’ originally meant merely ‘pleasing and delightful,’ not bubbling over with festive spirits, as it does today.

The same earlier meaning is found in the famous expression, ‘the merry month of May.'” Note: In “A Royal Duty,” Paul Burrell said the Queen preferred “Happy Christmas” because she believed “Merry Christmas” implies drunkenness.

SANTA CLAUS – Today, people around the world are familiar with the popularized depiction of Santa Claus: a chubby old gnome with a snow-colored beard, eight tiny reindeer, and an army of freckle-faced elves who leap at his beck and call.

Though commonly thought of as an American folk legend, Santa Claus owes most of his existence to old religious customs that came to this country with immigrants from Europe. Interwoven in our holiday tradition are the traditions of Spain, Germany, Italy and, above all, the Dutch Netherlands, where one of the clearest connections to the Santa tradition can be found.

Before becoming known in America as Santa Claus, this magical gift bearer was commonly referred to as “Sinter Claes” or “Sinterklass,” a Dutch language corruption of both the name and the religious title of Saint Nicholas, a fourth century bishop of the Eastern Orthodox Church. And as Dutch tradition tells it, Sinterklass doesn’t travel by sled or live at the North Pole. He also doesn’t dress up in a red velvet suit trimmed with faux polar bear fur, or manage a year-round sweatshop staffed by toy-making elves.

Sinterklass

Making a list and checking it twice to keep an accurate record of who’s been naughty and who’s been nice throughout the year is a monumental task, even for a magical old dude like Sinterklass. So assisting him with his gift-giving enterprise is Zwarte Piet (literally “Black Peter”), a Moorish youth with an old school feathered cap on his head and 24-karat “bling” in his earlobes.

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A smiling St. Nicholas, “De Goede Sint” (“The Good Saint”), and Black Pete ride their horse and donkey as Dutch children crowd around them in this artwork by Dutch writer and illustrator, Marie “Rie” Cramer, 1929

XMAS – “The X abbreviation of ‘Xmas’ for ‘Christmas’ is neither modern nor disrespectful. The notion that it is a new and vulgar representation of the word ‘Christmas’ seems to stem from the erroneous belief that the letter ‘X’ is used to stand for the word ‘Christ’ because of its resemblance to a cross, or that the abbreviation was deliberately concocted “to take the ‘Christ’ out of Christmas.” Actually, this usage is nearly as old as Christianity itself, and its origins lie in the fact that the first letter in the Greek word for ‘Christ’ is ‘chi,’ and the Greek letter ‘chi’ is represented by a symbol similar to the letter ‘X’ in the modern Roman alphabet.

Hence ‘Xmas’ is indeed perfectly legitimate abbreviation for the word ‘Christmas’ (just as ‘Xian’ is also sometimes used as an abbreviation of the word ‘Christian’). None of this means that Christians (and others) aren’t justified in feeling slighted when people write ‘Xmas’ rather than ‘Christmas,’ but the point is that the abbreviation was not created specifically for the purpose of demeaning Christ, Christians, Christianity, or Christmas — it’s a very old artifact of a very different language.

SHOPPING DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS – American retailer H. Gordon Selfridge (1856-1947) coined this expression ” __ shopping days until Christmas” while working for Marshall Field & Co. in Chicago. Later he coined the slogan “the customer is always right” when he opened Selfridge’s in London.

Marshall Field & Company gained notoriety for a number of unique promotions and features, like the Great Tree, which was a part of the store’s Christmas celebrations. In late fall, the phrase “looking ahead to the holidays” appeared in ads, with a full Christmas promotion following after Thanksgiving. “The Store of the Christmas Spirit,” “A Gift from Field’s Means More,” and “Christmas isn’t Christmas without a day at Marshall Field & Company” were advertising lines used to promote the store during the holidays.

Families lined up to eat under the Great Tree, visit “Cozy Cloud Cottage” and admire elaborate window displays, telling the story of “Uncle Mistletoe” and “Freddy Fieldmouse” which were creations of the store’s promotion department. Notably, one of the store’s windows displayed a beautiful crêche for Christmas, in addition to the commercial promotions that were popular along State Street.



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  1. Andy McCarthy: “You know, again, I think not only is the Justice department – Jonathan mentioned that this is not binding, and the JD could reject it..uh…my sense is that the JD will ignore it, which is what the JD generally does when Congress grandstands in this fashion…I would just point out: the last referral that they made was about incitement and incitement of the violence at the Capitol. The JD has prosecuted upwards to 800 people in connection with the Capitol riot. Insurrection is a federal crime but they have not brought a single insurrection case against anybody who’s been prosecuted. They have taken the position in the most serious cases that they brought in connection with seditious conspiracy that Trump was not an un-indicted co-conspirator and, to the extent that the defendants who were charged tried to blame Trump in those cases, the JD took the position that he was basically a pretext for things that these militia-type groups were planning to do anyway. So, the JD, in order to prosecute Trump at this point, for inciting or aiding and abetting the incitement in the Capitol riot, they would have to completely unwind and reverse the position that they’ve taken for about 2 years on these cases. The other thing about that is the Committee knows that! And yet they haven’t addressed it – they don’t address it. In connection with Trump’s speech, he took pains in the speech to say that he wanted them to march peacefully. The fact that the Committee doesn’t broadcast that he said that doesn’t make that go away. Again, this is a theatrical exercise more than a real hearing process.”

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  5. Turley: “As a criminal defense attorney, I was really struck at how weak this was. They keep on referring to things that might have occurred, appointments that might have been made, letters that might have been sent but ultimately were not. That’s not a compelling case for a criminal prosecution. Many of us were really looking to see if they had anything new that was actually direct You’ve got to keep in mind that, within a few weeks, the alleged victim in this case, the House of Representatives which is representing the People, of course, is going to change. The new House is going to come in and they’re either going to rescind or renounce this referral, which puts the DOJ in a curious position. I do think that Andy’s right – the DOJ will do what it will do regardless of this referral. What we’ve always said on this network, and some of us have emphasized, that the more serious threat is coming from Mar-A-Lago, not Jan. 6, and I think that’s still the case. I think if you see this final meeting, you get the feeling of a group of sort-of actors who refuse to leave the stage. You’ve got a bunch of folks that are repeating exactly what they have said now in repeated hearings, and each time, they’ve said “we’re going to be bringing in some new, powerful evidence” and then they repeat it. You need more than that for prosecution – you need more than mere repetition.”

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  6. EXCERPT: “Some findings of note:

    — The FBI continued its requests of location and VPN IP data from Twitter users, done without a warrant and without a subpoena: “would Twitter be open to sharing which service provider(s) those VPN IP addresses resolved to?” To its credit, Twitter pushed back on this request.

    — In one case, the FBI requested user data for an account that was critical of BLM and the Democrats. Twitter responded by confirming “the account in question is domestic in origin.”

    — The US intelligence community was pushing Twitter to “share more information” and change its user privacy settings.

    — Approximately 6 weeks before the 2020 election, the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force requested a classified briefing for Twitter general counsel James Baker (who, as you might recall, was involved in the FBI’s “botched” Russian collusion investigation). Baker, who was recently fired by Elon Musk, will come to be an important player in the Hunter Biden laptop saga, telling his Twitter colleagues the laptop materials were potentially hacked. Interestingly, on the day the Hunter Biden story was published, James Baker would have a telephone call with FBI general counsel Matthew Perry.

    As to the suppression of the Hunter Biden story, recall that on October 14, 2022, the New York Post ran its explosive, and potentially election-altering, story on the Hunter’s laptop. While much of the media focuses on the more salacious parts of the laptop – Hunter’s drug use, the naked photos, the prostitutes, etc. – the real controversy was always how Joe Biden corruptly used his influence to enrich his family. That’s what the NY Post story was about: “Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad.”

    https://technofog.substack.com/p/more-twitter-files-intelligence-community

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  8. On a lighter note….

    ENTIRE ARTICLE @ OANN: “OAN Newsroom Correspondent Geri Berry
    UPDATED 11:49 AM PT – Monday, December 19, 2022

    Amber Heard has been ordered to pay Johnny Depp $1 million. Amber Heard has decided to settle her Appeal #IStandWithAmberHeard #AmberAppeals

    Her statement: pic.twitter.com/rjSWUQgo4b

    — ꧁༺𝙻𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚎𝙷𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚍𝙰𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚎༻꧂ (@LeaveHeardAlone) December 19, 2022

    The Hollywood actress faced off against her famous ex-husband in court to settle their long-standing defamation lawsuit. In June, a jury found that Johnny Depp had proved all elements of defamation. In court , it was decided that Heard’s op-ed was false and defamatory. The jury agreed that the actress had acted with “actual malice” knowing that her statements were false.

    Heard asserted that the payment is “not an act of concession” and that she has “made no acknowledgment.” “I make this decision having lost faith in the American legal system, where my unprotected testimony served as entertainment and social media fodder,” Heard said. The lawsuit was based on the Hollywood actress’ 2018 op-ed that was written and published in the Washington Post newspaper. In it, Heard identified herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse” without mentioning Depp.

    A resounding victory for Johnny Depp. It was never about money or destroying Amber Heard. It was to vindicate him. He did not abuse Amber Heard and a jury of 7 unanimously found she lied WITH MALICE-knowingly lied 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

    $10M danages-$5M PUNITIVE DAMAGES #JohnnyDeppKeepsWinning
    https://t.co/N9VomxWDhj pic.twitter.com/Nbcj0hHqIF
    — TheRealLauraB🌊⚔️ (@LauraBockov) December 19, 2022

    Depp then sued his ex-wife for defamation and in response, the actress counter-sued. As a result of the case, Depp received $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages from the jury. Due to statutory limitations, a Virginia judge had limited the punitive damages to $350,000. The jury granted Heard $2 million in compensatory damages for her cross-complaint, which alleged defamation over remarks Depp’s attorney made about her abuse accusations, but no money for punitive damages.

    Earlier this year, Heard was ordered to pay $8.35 million after a six-week trial in Virginia. The new revision of the $1 million payment comes as a huge reduction from the earlier amount. It is reported that the payment is expected to come from her insurance carrier.

    “Women shouldn’t have to face abuse or bankruptcy for speaking her truth, but unfortunately it is not uncommon. I will not be threatened, disheartened or dissuaded by what happened from speaking the truth. No one can and no one will take that from me. My voice forever remains the most valuable asset I have,” Heard said.”

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  10. Man, that wind just cuts right thru me…of course, I was accompanied out to the tree by LM. He follows my every step. I wish I could find someone to take Jake…but I can’t in good conscience give him to anyone who might be unstable on their feet, given his attempts to trip people….and he is not the least bit playful, nor does he like being picked up, so a child wouldn’t want him either. Caught betwixt and between.

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  12. Hey, Pat! Have I got a deal for you! I’ll send the containers back and you can refill them! LOL – getting ready to try the ginger snaps…and of course the Reese’s bag has already been opened….

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      1. I will give them to my Mom – she always needs more containers and I’ve saved a bunch of that size already. I sometimes buy the sandwich meat in those containers and I’ve kept all of them. I use them to freeze my soups and meals in serving-size portions.

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  15. SunnyFlower5
    December 19, 2022 4:24 pm
    Reply to Donna

    Funny how the gates and doors if the Capitol were thrown open BEFORE the end of his speech.
    Gosh— could the invasion have been timed to be launched at his expected speech ending?
    Being an hour late – his speech ended an hour late.
    The coordinated effort took place as timed— which looks bad for them.

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    1. SunnyFlower5
      December 19, 2022 3:52 pm

      Tracy Beanz@tracybeanz

      Devin NunesReTruthed

      🚨 🚨 🚨 Twitter was paid by the FBI. This is it. This is the lynchpin. It is no longer a question whether or not there was government pressure on these platforms for censorship. They were being paid. Missouri v. Biden has just been decided

      46. The FBI’s influence campaign may have been helped by the fact that it was paying Twitter millions of dollars for its staff time.

      “I am happy to report we have collected $3,415,323 since October 2019!” reports an associate of Jim Baker in early 2021. pic.twitter.com/SmNse97QxK

      — Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) December 19, 2022

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  16. Ah, man…..”significant winter storm moving across the country, threatening to create a Christmas travel nightmare…said to impact millions of Americans.” Starts to take shape in the middle part of the country, middle part of the work week, from Thursday into Friday it moves from the Plains into the upper mid-west, with blizzard-like conditions, and a lot of rain and a lot of wind for the east coast. That wind will likely be very disruptive to travel. Still in the upper mid-west Friday and heavy rain all the way to the Canadian border. I’m in the 3-5 inch range, eastern SD/western MN 5-8 inch range, eastern MN/western IL 8-12 inch range, Chicago, Great Lakes region 12-18 inches. Depending on where you are, Pat, you’re probably looking at either the 5-8 or 8-12 range. Dang!!!!

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    1. yep…and all that heavy crap that fell off the roof while we were gone is not moving–it’s stuck to the deck and is so dang heavy…I gotta work at it maybe tomorrow with a metal shovel to chop away what i can before we get hammered again…

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  19. Pat, I’m going to have to make a run to Norfolk tomorrow before the snow arrives. I was going to wait until Wednesday but not now. So I won’t be here for a couple of hours to watch the bin. Sorry….

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  20. Exclusive: “Davos 2023 will feature BlackRock & TikTok CEOs, with WEF demanding more censorship and tyranny — Partial speakers and events list obtained by The Dossier”

    Jordan Schachtel
    27 min ago

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “The World Economic Forum (WEF) will host its annual meeting in Davos next month, and for the second year in a row, The Dossier is the first publication to publish a list of speakers attending the invite-only, ruling class gathering in Switzerland.

    The World Economic Forum is a fanatical political organization masquerading as a neutral entity, with specific policy goals that involve centralizing power into the hands of hand-picked global elites as the only means to save the earth from a claimed climate emergency. The annual Davos conference acts as an ultra exclusive in-person narrative and ideas exchange for this hand-picked ruling class. The WEF is led by frontman and president Klaus Schwab, who advocates for a “green transition” through his misleadingly named “stakeholder capitalism” agenda, which amounts to technocratic tyranny.

    Movements such as The Great Reset, Build Back Better, and the ESG agenda were pieced together by WEF “stakeholders” at previous Davos confabs. The Dossier has obtained an early, partial list of both events and confirmed speakers for Davos 2023.

    The programme for Davos 2023 includes events such as:

    “Why We Need Battery Passports”
    “Leading The Charge Through Earth’s New Normal” (Featuring Al Gore)
    “A Living Wage For All”
    “Enabling An Equitable Transition”
    “Beyond The Rainbow: Advancing LGBTQ+ Rights”
    “Advancing Racial and Ethnic Equity” (Moderated by CNN)
    “Decarbonizing Supply Chains” (Moderated by Chinese state television)
    “Finding The Right Balance For Crypto”
    “Tackling Harm In The Digital Era”

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      1. yeah, it’s unreasonable for ultra maggot to extend the cv emergency for all of us and then stop the emergency cv protocol at the border…one or the other asswipe

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  22. Issue: December 18, 2022
    “After Twitter revelations, Rep. James Comer says Google and Facebook needs to be investigated for similar censorship collusion” — Congressman Comer says there will be “several committees” focused on this.”

    By Christina Maas
    Posted 3:28 pm

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Commenting on the recent Twitter Files’ revelation of the FBI’s constant communication with Twitter, including recommending account bans, Republican Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee Rep. James Comer said investigations should go beyond Twitter to Google and Facebook.

    “The entire FBI needs to be dismantled, we need to start all over. We need to enact strict reforms, and there need to be checks and balances at the FBI,” Comer said, speaking to Tammy Bruce on Fox News’ Hannity. He added that fixing and holding the FBI accountable should start with the budget process, which is why he is against the push for an omnibus.

    “My concern was that this was a rogue FBI employee or two…but what we found today is the FBI had its own ministry of propaganda,” Comer continued. “This is serious. What else are they involved in at the FBI? The entire FBI needs to be dismantled. We need to start all over. We need to enact strict reforms and there need to be checks and balances at the FBI.”

    Bruce then asked, “I trust, though, that you are going to expand this beyond Twitter. You mentioned Google, you mentioned, perhaps, Facebook…are you going to expand and include those platforms, which we also know, at least from Mark Zuckerberg, he too was contacted by the FBI. I think we only know a portion of that. Are you going to expand this investigation?”

    The Republican lawmaker, set to chair the Oversight Committee starting in January, replied: “Yes. This is going to take several committees focusing a lot of attention. Big tech is going to be a priority for the Republican majority…”

    He added that “the FBI was involved in censorship…they have stepped in where the government does not belong. And this has to end. People have to be held accountable and we’re going to have to start with the budget, that’s what is so frustrating about what’s going on right now in Washington.”

    Video: https://reclaimthenet.org/comer-says-google-and-fb-needs-to-be-investigated-censorship/

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  23. These birds are amazing. Strong wind coming from the NW yet the female cardinal is sitting on the open feeder – I can see her being buffeted by the wind but it doesn’t knock her off her feed or her feet.

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  24. 12/19/22 • COVID • BIG PHARMA

    “COVID Lockdowns Altered Kids’ Gut Microbiomes — Here’s Why That’s a Problem” — Children who aren’t exposed to germs on a regular basis have different microbiomes than those who are. Exposure to nonpathogenic microorganisms train the immune system to function normally and not react excessively or unnecessarily.

    By Dr. Joseph Mercola

    EXCERPT: “Story at a glance:

    — Children who aren’t exposed to germs on a regular basis have different microbiomes than those who are. The microbiome, in turn, plays a decisive role in how well one’s immune system works.

    — Exposure to nonpathogenic microorganisms helps prevent immune-mediated chronic disorders, as they act as immunomodulatory signaling agents. They basically train your immune system to function normally and not react excessively or unnecessarily.

    — There’s also evidence suggesting that certain childhood infections may reduce your risk of certain chronic illnesses. Measles infection, for example, could potentially lower your risk of cancer in the future.

    — In August 2021, a French group of pediatric infectious disease experts warned that “immunity debt” caused by a lack of exposure to common viruses and bacteria during COVID-19 lockdowns and school closures may predispose children to suffer more infections in the future.

    — The potential benefits of natural infections have fallen by the wayside as the single-minded focus on vaccination has taken over. We now see the medical industry trying to erase knowledge about the lifelong benefits associated with infections, especially childhood infections.

    As reported by The Atlantic in early November, children who aren’t exposed to germs on a regular basis have different microbiomes than those who are. In April 2021, a year into widespread COVID-19 lockdowns and the obsessive focus on antibacterials, microbiologist Brett Finlay predicted that “five years from now we are going to see a large number of kids with asthma and obesity.”

    Contact with microbes trains your immune system — The “hygiene hypothesis” was initially proposed by epidemiologist Dr. David Strachan in 1989. He believed the rising incidence of allergies was linked to reduced exposure to viruses and bacteria, thanks to smaller family sizes, which means fewer siblings from whom infants are exposed to germs and infections.”

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-lockdowns-kids-gut-microbiomes-cola/

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  25. 12/19/22
    “Appeals Court Says U.S. Cannot Mandate Federal Contractor COVID Vaccines + More”

    The Defender’s Big Brother NewsWatch brings you the latest headlines related to governments’ abuse of power, including attacks on democracy, civil liberties and use of mass surveillance. The views expressed in the excerpts from other news sources do not necessarily reflect the views of The Defender.

    By The Defender Staff

    – Appeals Court Says U.S. Cannot Mandate Federal Contractor COVID Vaccines
    – Rep. Kevin McCarthy Vows to ‘Change the Course of the FBI’ Following ‘Twitter Files’ Bombshell
    – FTC Fines Fortnite Maker Epic Games $520 Million Over Children’s Privacy and Item Shop Charges
    – Alleged Lack of Transparency Renews Fears Over Vaccine Passports in Orange County
    – Cyberbullying Affects Almost Half of American Teens. Parents May Be Unaware.
    – Musk’s Poll Results: Elon Should Step Down as Twitter CEO
    – Youngkin Joins GOP Governors in Banning TikTok on State Devices, Wireless Networks
    – Up to 254,000 Medicare Beneficiaries Are Getting New ID Cards Due to Data Breach at Subcontractor. What They Need to Know
    – China’s COVID Case ‘Explosion’ Not Due to Relaxed Rules, WHO Says, as 1st Deaths Reported Since Easing
    – ‘What Was It for?’: The Mental Toll of China’s Three Years in COVID Lockdowns

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bb-appeals-court-us-cannot-mandate-federal-contractor-covid-vaccines/

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  26. WeThePeople2016
    December 19, 2022 6:03 pm

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    Donald J. Trump
    @realDonaldTrump
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    15m
    The Fake charges made by the highly partisan Unselect Committee of January 6th have already been submitted, prosecuted, and tried in the form of Impeachment Hoax # 2. I WON convincingly. Double Jeopardy anyone!

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    1. WeThePeople2016
      December 19, 2022 6:02 pm

      Donald J. Trump
      @realDonaldTrump
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      12m
      STATEMENT ON JAN 6 COMMITTEE REFERRAL

      These folks don’t get it that when they come after me, people who love freedom rally around me. It strengthens me. What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. Americans know that I pushed for 20,000 troops to prevent violence on Jan 6, and that I went on television and told everyone to go home….

      ….The people understand that the Democratic Bureau of Investigation, the DBI, are out to keep me from running for president because they know I’ll win and that this whole business of prosecuting me is just like impeachment was — a partisan attempt to sideline me and the Republican Party.

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  27. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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